Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Each week, the members of the Watcher's Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for best post. The Watcher publishes the results each Friday morning. The Watcher also has a process for anyone who would like to submit one of their posts for consideration as part of the weekly contest. You can find out more about that here. This week's nominations are:

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Council Posts:

1. Done With Mirrors, This Is a 'Moderate Voice?'Callimachus fisks a rather immoderate blog that takes umberance at the Bush administration's calls for Cuba to move towards democracy following the retirement of Fide Castro.

2. The Glittering Eye, Ending the War in IraqCall me cynical, but I really do wonder whether John Podesta, Ray Takeyh and Lawrence J. Korb can possibly believe what they write. At any rate, GE does not accept their arguments for withdrawal from Iraq.

5. Wolf Howling - The Dershowitz QuestionsMy post on how to address the Salifization of the Middle East and the expansion of its death cult, written within the framework of questions raised by Alan Dershowitz in the WSJ.

6. Soccer Dad - The Fine Art of Flying (with the president)SD takes a generally favorable view of Bob Geldof's interview of the President, at least in as much as it reflects positively on President Bush's Africa policies.

7. Bookworm Room - RapeA fascinating post from BWR on how the feminist movement has divested women of individual responsibility for their own conduct, in this case as concerns campus "rape," and made rapists of men who do not meet the classical definition of having forced themselves on an unwilling woman or otherwise taken advantage of a woman they have placed in a such a position that they cannot dissent - i.e., date rape drugs.

9. The Colossus of Rhodey - Exchange Student WoesRhodey reminisces on the worth of taking advantage of being an exchange student.

10. Big Lizards - Chicago RulesDaffyd does an exceptional job of digging into the curious electoral history of Obama, which appears to owe far more to lawyers and scandal than it does to the votes of an electorate or his policy positions. I love his Ian Flemming quote: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action."

12. Right Wing Nut House - The Terrorism Conundrum for DemocratsDemocrats portray any mention of terrorism or national security issues as the "politics of fear" in order to innoculated them from charges on the right that they are incredibly weak on national security issues. So when Hillary raises the issue as to Obama, she is getting attacked from within her own party. So can Democrats even raise this as a viable issue? As Rick Moran notes, "This is the conundrum largely created by the Democrats to answer the GOP’s huge advantage on the issue of terrorism. Apparently, it has now come back and bit them in the ass."